Sport Hunting

geologic · Oct 30, 2015

CJ-6 (Casey Jones2014-6 x GSC2014 X Dervish2014)
came down yesterday,

CD-1b (ChemdawgD2014-1 x GSC2014 X Dervish2014)
came down today [pic from yesterday];

and CD-4 (ChemdawgD2014-4 x GSC2014 X Dervish2014),
the last plant--
<maybe> comes down tomorrow...

geologic · Oct 30, 2015

My 2015 outdoor growing season is over,

next phase is the long/slow process of trimming,
my hands already hurt: can't hardly sleep at night;
what's needed is some kinda distraction--
like music...

geologic · Oct 30, 2015

Og Gong · Oct 30, 2015

Nice trim line up lol . I do the same thing. I labeled the playlist to what strain I'm harvesting lmao.

geologic · Oct 30, 2015

Today the day started off with last year's Moonshine Haze,
and while I was harvesting The Omega CD4-2015;
I was vaping the last of her mommy: CD4-2014--
crossing her with <ibl>Dervish added 16 days...

geologic · Oct 31, 2015

Tonight's Halloween show at Madison Square Garden
live stream (4:30 PST): <- [edit] (may not be "PST" today <whatever>
it's an hour from now...)

http://mixlr.com/rippleish20/

You don't need to join/register/or log in,
just watch the chat-scroll while it loads...

Albany NY, Times Union Center 10/29/15
Setlist
1. Playing In The Band
2. Cold Rain And Snow
3.Tennessee Jed
4.Feel Like A Stranger
5. He's Gone
6. Bird Song
7.The Music Never Stopped
Set 2
8. Lost Sailor
9.Saint Of Circumstance
10.Help On The Way
11.Slipknot!
12.Franklin's Tower
13. Drums
14. Space
15. The Other One
16. Stella Blue
17. Not Fade Away
encore
18. Touch Of Grey

(Playin' > Cold Rain)...

geologic · Oct 31, 2015

Ripplelesh may be at Phil's show tonite--
TurtleBee is live now...
http://mixlr.com/turtlebee--2/

geologic · Oct 31, 2015

h2ogirl might have a higher quality feed...

geologic · Nov 6, 2015

Here's a quality stream of the Halloween MSG show:

Sativied · Nov 21, 2015

geologic said:
My 2015 outdoor growing season is over,

View attachment 546382

Are you going to plant some crops for the winter? How do you keep you soil healthy for so many years?

OLDproLg · Nov 21, 2015

YEAH DEAD n FRIENDS MAN!!!!

LOVED T BUDDY,i know you did too......
THANKS for the help man,and sorry i left BBAY...
KEEP the search UP in here good friend!!!
Lou

geologic · Nov 21, 2015

Sativied said:
Are you going to plant some crops for the winter?

I shoudda already planted cover crops,
after harvest I always neglect everything outside;
all the vegetables still alive at harvest die from neglect by now,
and the ornamentals in containers are not far behind;
I've got a list somewhere 'round here of last year's covers--
thanks for the wake-up...

geologic · Nov 21, 2015

Sativied said:
How do you keep you soil healthy for so many years?

30 years ago I broke ground for the garden (pure clay),
the only Cannabis was in containers hidden along that north fence;
next year there were plants in the hills with the vegetables,
being still quite paranoid I kept 'em ~12 inches--
but I just had to do it...

mittenmedgrow · Nov 21, 2015

Great thread, very interesting.

geologic · Nov 26, 2015

4 hours left for a ~70% discount on Cap's Bennies/OgBiowar...

https://www.thcfarmer.com/community/threads/thanksgiving-day-just-give-er.77438/#post-1567069

geologic · Nov 27, 2015

1 kilo Root Pack
1 kilo Foliar Pack
1 pound Nute Pack
total: $149.79
You just saved $278.18...
------------------------------
...and I couldn't even afforded the 149.18,
somebody else afforded it for me;
and I'm very thankful--
to him an Cap...

geologic · Dec 25, 2015

geologic · Dec 26, 2015

Happy Boxing Day and St. Stephen's Day

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Historians say the holiday developed because servants were required to work on Christmas Day, but took the following day off. As servants prepared to leave to visit their families, their employers would present them with gift boxes.

And who was this martyr? He was the first deacon ordained by the apostles, one of seven deacons. “Stephen” is derived from the Greek for “crown,” (“country garland”?) and his career is documented in the biblical book of The Acts of the Apostles, chapters 6-8. (“And Stephen, full of grace and fortitude, did great wonders and signs among the people.”) He was stoned to death for preaching that Israel had deviated from God’s word, around the year 34. His feast day is celebrated on December 26.

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The sheer unlikelihood of a song about an early Christian martyr as rock anthem makes “Saint Stephen” a wonderful and intriguing and endlessly fascinating piece, both lyrically and in its many musical variants over the years.

The song credits go to Robert Hunter for the lyrics, and to Jerry Garcia for the major part of the song’s music, with Phil Lesh composing the music for the coda. The first documented performance, according to DeadBase X, took place on May 24, 1968, at the National Guard Armory (shades of “One More Saturday Night”!) in St. Louis. In and out of the repertoire it went, dropping away in 1971, reappearing from 1976 to 1979, then brought back for several performances in 1983. It racked up a total 289 known performances.

“Saint Stephen” appeared on the Dead’s third studio album, Aoxomoxoa, which was released on June 20, 1969. Notably, it was captured and released on Live Dead, as part of a blockbuster suite including “Dark Star,” “The Eleven,” and “Lovelight.” In that performance, the coda (included in italics in Hunter’s Box of Rain lyrics anthology as part of “Saint Stephen”) provided a bridge between “Saint Stephen” and “The Eleven”: “High green chilly winds and windy vines in loops….”

An interview in Relix magazine contained this exchange:

Relix: Was Saint Stephen anyone specific?
Hunter: No, it was just Saint Stephen.
Relix: You weren’t writing about someone, you were writing about something?
Hunter: Yea. That was a great song to write.

He also discussed the song in an interview with Jeff Tamarkin:

I had been working on this a long time before I gave it to the Grateful Dead, before I took off for New Mexico, which is where I originally sent them the lyrics from. I don't know what to say about this song, except that it was very important to me. It seemed to be saying oodles. It's still one of my favorites. I didn't know who the real Saint Stephen was until I wrote it.

Of course, the imagery the song gets across is more or less branded into the cerebral cortices of Deadheads everywhere, and we see this saint with his rose going in and out of the garden, and we see the wishing well, and the golden bell, and the ladyfinger writing “what for?” across the morning sky. (Although, I almost hesitate to point out, some of us may visualize the “lady finger” as a lady’s finger, some of us as a celestial pastry…)
In fact, the song is full of nothing but questions. Answers aplenty in the bye and bye, but for now, it’s questions all the way down that well.

Unanswered questions run through the song, and not even this giant of early Christian history knows how to answer the first ones posed: “Did it matter? Does it now?”

The Relix interviewer was very likely probing Hunter to see if he would say anything about the speculations over the years that the song was really about Stephen Gaskin, the Haight Ashbury spiritual leader who eventually founded The Farm, and who led a well-attended discussion group during the heyday of the Haight. The discussion group was known as the Monday Night Class, and at its peak during 1969 and 1970 it drew up to 1500 attendees. (It was held at a location out by the Great Highway. Lyrics within lyrics…)

But neither Hunter, nor anyone else, has had anything positive to say about such speculation. Nope, it’s about the Christian martyr.

And who was this martyr? He was the first deacon ordained by the apostles, one of seven deacons. “Stephen” is derived from the Greek for “crown,” (“country garland”?) and his career is documented in the biblical book of The Acts of the Apostles, chapters 6-8. (“And Stephen, full of grace and fortitude, did great wonders and signs among the people.”) He was stoned to death for preaching that Israel had deviated from God’s word, around the year 34. His feast day is celebrated on December 26.

An 1833 hymn, “Saint Stephen Was a Holy Man” (credited to “traditional”) contains this verse, bringing to mind the line: “Wherever he goes, the people all complain:

But when they heard him so to say,
Their hearts in sunder clave,
And gnashing on him with their teeth,
Like madmen they did rave;
And then they all so sharp and shrill,
With violence gan ran,
That there, without the city-walls,
They ston'd this holy man.

(This hymn’s chorus bears some resemblance to “Mason’s Children.” Hmmm….another time.)

Interestingly, both Stephens were preachers, in a way. I love the line, “Wherever he goes, the people all complain.” No one enjoys being told difficult truths. They can get you killed.

The music accompanying all of this imagery, all these questions without answers, can be at times grandiose, at times, rollicking in its initial verses, but then it melts into the bridge: “Lady finger, dipped in moonlight…” These lines were characterized by the writer Ed McClanahan, in his piece about the Dead in Playboy magazine, “Grateful Dead I Have Known,” “…the sweetest, tenderest, loveliest thing anybody had ever said to her, ever in her life.” (McClanahan was relating a speculative story about a young woman’s experience while in the act of conceiving a child she later claimed was Garcia’s own “true” child. You have to read the piece to get it.)

But there’s that very strong image, staying with us stubbornly, of a finger, dipped in moonlight, writing a question across the morning sky. And the daybreak brings a splatter of answers, doesn’t it? And can’t you just see darkness shrugging, turning, and bidding the day goodbye? It may not “make sense” but it makes perfect sense.

And then, where does that speeding arrow come from? And who is that babe being wrapped in scarlet, like some character in an ancient ballad? In fact, so much about this song feels ancient and at the same time hallucinatory, we are left in an altered state of consciousness by the words alone. And the music just helps that along.

The song seems to come to some kind of conclusion, only to have its own lyrics undercut that conclusion. The very determined declamation of “Saint Stephen will remain, all he’s lost he shall regain” is followed by a verse that ends with an answer to a question that is then questioned itself: “But what would be the answer to the answer man?”

The coda that follows seems like some lost fragment of Celtic song, or maybe that’s just the memory I have of staring at the words that were including as an insert to the Live Dead LP, which were written in a very Celtic-looking script with large elaborate capitals.

Here’s where the song’s own garden appears—appropriately, since our saint is going in and out of said garden holding a rose. Vines, lavender, ivy, and manzanita…plenty of plants for your Grateful Dead garden, all languishing for lack of water in the barren landscape.

The song has remained very much alive in the repertoire of the various post-Grateful Dead bands, and it’s always wonderful to hear, and especially to hear the big crowd reactions to certain lines and the roaring out of others in a huge chorus.

It definitely seems to be saying oodles. And in my mind, it’s one of those Hunter lyrics that shows how wide open the lyrics can be, even with very specific imagery. One of these weeks, I’m going to get around to “China Cat Sunflower.”

Here’s the craziest story I have to go with “Saint Stephen.” At my first Dead show, in October 1976, when the band played the first, ringing, opening notes of the song, the sun blinked. I mean, there was a moment of complete darkness in the middle of an outdoor, sunlit Day on the Green show at the Oakland Coliseum, and then the sun came back on. Believe it if you need it…but I did go on to become a reference librarian, and what is a reference librarian if not an answer man?

A final connection to note here, although I am certain there are many more. Garcia’s memorial service was held at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Belvedere, Marin County, California, with Mathew Fox presiding.

Over to you.

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Grateful Dead's immortalization of St Stephen

Sativied · Jan 1, 2016

Happy new year Geo

My first sport of the year:
11 leaflets (opposite side has 7, as in 4th set of leaves)

geologic · Jan 1, 2016

Happy New Year to you <all> too;
farm out on the frosty weirdo--
I have to wait a few months before I can get back to the hunt...

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